Adel laughed unintentionally. She folded his note and placed it in the box where she had put the pistol.
Then, looking out the window by chance, she saw Zymur under the gardener’s care.
Wasn’t he supposed to leave together?
She quickly put on her gown and went outside.
“Weren’t you accompanying the Earl, Sir Zymur?”
Talking with Tanya, Zymur, who was startled, quickly turned around. His usually calm face seemed a bit flustered. Alongside him, Tanya, who was in front of him, blushed slightly.
“I’m sorry. I disturbed your good time…”
“No, you didn’t!”
“Not at all, miss.”
The two were surprised and extended their hands. Then, Tanya quickly ran away, saying she had to prepare for the day.
“I was in the middle of expressing my gratitude for mending my clothes.”
Zymur explained the situation from a while ago with a puzzled look.
“But the atmosphere seemed quite nice, didn’t it?”
“Ha, you’re mistaken!”
“By the way, I thought you were leaving with the Earl.”
“He said he was going alone this time.”
“So, did he secretly leave in the early morning?”
“Don’t worry. He’ll return safely without any trouble.”
“It sounds like you’re saying something might happen.”
“No, I mean…”
“You won’t tell me why he left?”
“I’m sorry.”
Zymur just nodded apologetically.
Zymur had a mild and quiet temperament, but Adel knew he was more tight-lipped than anyone else. So, Kristin keeping him as a confidant made sense.
“I understand.”
Sure, nothing bad will happen.
But Adel couldn’t help but worry. To leave without anyone knowing meant his mission was as secretive as it was dangerous.
It meant something risky.
The cunning emperor personally came to make a final request, and it wouldn’t be something easy.
However, Adel couldn’t just focus on Kristin’s concerns.
If he were to leave for Ruswulf as soon as he returned, there were several things he needed to arrange.
He had to select the belongings to take, arrange for the carriage and workers needed for the move. Additionally, he needed to find out about the supplies and simple food items for the journey, as well as the accommodations where they would stay. There were also several places where the settlement payments needed to be finalized.
Most of it was handled by Henri and Hanyang, but the final decisions were Adel’s responsibility as the hostess.
While dealing with these matters, she received a message to come to Chanel’s house for a wedding dress fitting.
“Seems like you forgot. When fitting the engagement dress, you also saw the wedding dress and evening dress designs together.”
After hearing Mrs. Chanel’s words, Adel remembered.
She had seen the wedding dress along with the engagement dress when they were fitting. However, due to various events, she had completely forgotten about it when they couldn’t hold the wedding.
“But I don’t think I placed an order at that time.”
“The Earl ordered it together with you. Just in case you might have a wedding soon.”
“Is that so.”
Kristin also wanted a wedding as much as she did.
Thanks to that, she ended up wearing a proper wedding dress for the sudden wedding. Come to think of it, she almost got married without a wedding dress.
Wearing the gown tailored by Adel, Kristin stood in front of the mirror, and Mrs. Chanel’s praises overflowed.
“Oh my, it’s truly beautiful! If the engagement dress was an angel, the wedding dress is a goddess!”
The pure white wedding dress had a deep V-neckline along the chest, adorned with puff sleeves. The skirt, made of fluttering chiffon fabric, spread brightly, and pearls and crystals adorned it subtly yet splendidly from the waist center throughout.
However, Adel found the excessively flashy and bold design a bit perplexing.
“It seems like it shows a lot more cleavage than the original design I saw.”
“The motto of my design is to ‘highlight beautiful features more.’ Trust me. You’ll be a more beautiful bride than anyone else.”
“More beautiful… than anyone else?”
Mrs. Chanel seemed to speak as if conscious of a specific person.
“Well… it seems the Princess is getting married soon.”
“The Princess?”
Mrs. Chanel lowered her voice.
“In fact, my friend works as a seamstress in the imperial palace. A few days ago, the Empress secretly called her and asked to make a wedding dress for the Princess.”
Adel was confused.
“But Viscount Oswald is probably in prison now.”
“That’s right. The Earl managed to catch him, but maybe he’ll be released soon?”
“Impossible!”
If someone could commit such a terrible crime and still get released, it could only mean the Emperor intentionally let him go.
Given that, what kind of request did Kristin make, saying it was the last one?
“But you know what’s even stranger?”
“What’s stranger?”
“She said not to measure the Princess’s size. She said the Princess seems to have gained weight recently, so just make it more spacious than usual.”
“Why would she…?”
Mrs. Chanel lowered her voice even more than before.
“Sometimes, ladies make such orders at our shop. Mostly to avoid revealing their pregnancy…”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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